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Joel Fields, writer of the TV series The Americans in which Keri plays KGB officer Elizabeth Jennings, said she was a “brilliant artist” who remains modest.

From the stage, he told an anecdote about the star waiting for a scene change when she was nearly eight months pregnant.

“Normally an actor would go back to her trailer, have some tea and groom her Shih Tzu,” he said.

“But Keri, not wanting to cost the production the 20 minutes of travel time back and forth, just curled up on this little lawn in front of a dilapidated building in downtown Brooklyn and went to sleep.

“Half an hour later she popped up and did her scene as brilliantly and beautifully as always.”

JJ Abrams and Matt Reeves, the co-creators of Felicity, also praised the mother-of-three.